INFANTA MARIA TERESA

INFANTA MARIA TERESA
75 obras en 2 salas
1651-1652
327101
33 cm x 38 cm
OLEO SOBRE LIENZO
NUEVA YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
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Núm. cat. 49.7.43, información facilitada por Ch. Montgoris, Metropolitan Museum.

López-Rey, catálogo revisado (1996) núm. 113. Fragmento de un retrato, ampliado por ambos lados. Beruete lo publicó como retrato de la reina Mariana. Desde 1920 en Metropolitran Museum.

Philippe Ledieu, Paris (by 1874–d. 1899); Colonel Oliver H. Payne, New York (probably from 1899–d. 1917); Harry Payne Bingham, New York (1917–27); [Duveen, New York, and Knoedler, New York, 1927–28]; [Duveen, New York, 1928; sold for $175,000 to Bache]; Jules S. Bache, New York (1928–d. 1944; his estate, 1944–49; cats., 1929, unnumbered; 1937, no. 44; 1943, no. 43)

This picture is a fragment of what was probably originally a half-length portrait of the Infanta. The earliest dimensions on record are those provided in the 1897 catalogue of the "Exposition des Portraits de Femmes": 36 x 42 cm. (14 1/8 x 16 1/2 in.). The measurements 13 3/4 x 15 in. are recorded on the reverse of a photo (see Ptgs. Dept. archives) which dates from 1920 when the picture was lent to the Museum. Between 1927 and 1928, while the portrait was with Duveen Brothers, the dimensions were altered on three occasions (see notes in Ptgs. Dept. archives), amounting in the end to a canvas which had been cut down, with strips added on all sides. A Catalogue of Paintings in the Bache Collection, 1937, gives the picture's measurements as 17 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.; these were its dimensions until September 1984 when the painting was relined and the added strips were largely removed. A strip of about 3/8 in. remains at the bottom, and one of about 1/4 in. at the top; about 3/8 in. remains on the left and 1/4 in. on the right.

A copy after this portrait, in which the sitter is depicted half-length, is in the Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art. A weaker copy, also half-length, whose present whereabouts are unknown, was formerly in the Bayo collection, Bilbao, and is mentioned by Mayer (1936) as on the Paris art market in 1932.